Photos of the Day: August 11-12, 2015

A selection of some of the best photos from around the world made available over the past 24 hours by the Associated Press.

Facundo Lazo, right, of Argentina, celebrates winning the gold medal, next to silver medalist Armando Andrade, of Mexico, after the the men’s 100-meter breaststroke SB8 final at the Parapan American Games in Toronto on Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2015. (Darren Calabrese/The Canadian Press via AP)

Marshals watch as a bird flies near the 8th tee during a practice round for the PGA Championship golf tournament Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2015, at Whistling Straits in Haven, Wis. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

In this photo taken on Tuesday, Aug. 11, and released Wednesday Aug. 12, 2015, a migrant is lifted onboard by an helicopter from the Italian Navy ship Orione, after he and another migrant were spotted clinging to a barrel, in the Mediterranean sea, between Libya and Italy. (Italian Navy via AP Photo)

In this Aug. 3, 2015 photo, Haitian Molene Charles bathes her 15-month-old son Geralson next to their makeshift home in Anse-a-Pitres, Haiti, on the border with the Dominican Republic, after fleeing the D.R. by foot due to threats from locals. Hundreds of thousands of people applied for residency in the D.R., but many could not qualify for residency because they could not meet the requirements. Others say they have also felt increasing hostility toward people from Haiti in the Dominican Republic. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)

In this Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2015, photo, Ruby Sales, founder and director of The SpiritHouse Project, an Atlanta-based nonprofit dealing with discrimination, sits for a photo in Atlanta. Fifty years after Jonathan Daniels was shot dead by an ardent segregationist in Alabama, the people who stood with him then lament today’s killings of blacks by police and the racially motivated slaying of nine black worshippers as stark reminders of the country’s persistent racial divide. “Race relations today in the United States are an extension of that time period,” Sales said. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

A migrant carries a child off a dinghy after crossing from Turkey to the Greek southeastern island of Kos, at the early hours, Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2015. Dozens of boat people from the Middle East are flowing into the Greek holiday island of Kos from nearby Turkey, joining thousands of refugees camped under wretched conditions. (AP Photo/Yorgos Karahalis)

Tampa Bay Rays starting pitcher Erasmo Ramirez, right, gets doused with water by teammate Chris Archer as Ramirez is interviewed following the team’s 2-0 win over the Atlanta Braves during a baseball game Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2015, in St. Petersburg, Fla. (AP Photo/Chris O’Meara)

Matt Dayhoff started as a photographer for the Journal Star in 1992 shortly after graduating from the Ohio University School of Visual Communications. In 2009, he moved into the newsroom as an online editor and producer and is now responsible for helping manage and edit much of the editorial content on pjstar.com.